Empirical Study of Extreme Overfitting Points of Neural Networks

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In this paper we propose a method of obtaining points of extreme overfitting—parameters of modern neural networks, at which they demonstrate close to 100% training accuracy, simultaneously with almost zero accuracy on the test sample. Despite the widespread opinion that the overwhelming majority of critical points of the loss function of a neural network have equally good generalizing ability, such points have a huge generalization error. The paper studies the properties of such points and their location on the surface of the loss function of modern neural networks.